Menstruation Festival in Germany,
1988. One-sheet announcement in
German with English translation. Possibly a
commercial undertaking (for a dance teacher)"Frauen gemeinsam,"
("Common to women" comic strip), about menstrual
sychronization, Germany, Brigitte magazine,
1992
"Single," (comic strip) the
Netherlands, 31 October 2005, by Hanco Kolk and Peter de Wit "Appears Monthly"
("Verschijnt maandeliks"), newspaper
article about & one-page announcement of
Dutch menstruation exhibit, 1982, with English
translations"Sylvia" (comic strip by Nicole Hollander, U.S.A.), about this museum (5 August 1995)More miscellaneous
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Catamenia The newsletter of the Museum of Menstruation (MUM) mid 1990s 3 issuesBelow: Fall 1995 issue, pp. 7-8 (last pages)
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Below: P. 7 of the Fall 1995 issue
| | Below: Page 8 (last) of the Fall 1995 issue.
When a local video crew for the BBC's The Sunday Morning Show in the U.K. (see a quarter of the way down the page) shot a segment about this museum one cold and dreary night, they insisted on first shooting toward my house on the front lawn while a man waved a leafy tree branch in front of a spot light, creating a spooky shadow moving across the house. How better to darken the mood of menstrual museum weirdness than Halloween effects? That disappointed me. It pleased me even less when inside the museum my interviewer popped a nasty question in front of the active camera. It must have amused the sleepy telly viewers. Even Howard Stern didn't do that.
Luckily I no longer remember what the question was.
In Comments from Italy, near the bottom of the page: Prof. Pecorari mailed me "Befleckte Weiblichkeit–Spuren tradierter Menstruationsmythen in der Werbung für Produkte der weiblichen intimhygiene," ["Sullied femininity–traces of menstrual myths in advertising for women's sanitary products"] by Dr. med. Jael Backe of the Universitätsfrauenklinik Würzburg, Germany, published in Gynäkologisch-geburtshilfliche Rundschau; 37:30-38. 1997 that included this impressive ad (bottom of page) for the German Camelia menstrual pad.
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